Em battered Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have accused Israeli settlers of deliberately cutting off water supplies and targeting or poisoning wells in an effort to force them from their land.
Residents of Khirbet Al-Tawil told RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij that the community’s main water line was cut around four and a half months ago and that attempts to repair it were blocked. After a long, dry summer left water increasingly scarce, locals say settlers are now trying to pump their remaining wells dry.
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Some people have already run out of water, a local farmer said, adding that residents have had to transport supplies at night, also risking having their vehicles seized. One activist, a retired IDF colonel, said he challenged the order and was detained. The case against him was later thrown out.
The most serious problem in my story is not what the settlers do, it’s what the soldiers do, he said. He also accused the Israeli government of backing the settlers, claiming their ultimate goal is to drive Palestinians from large parts of the West Bank.
Dictator and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly sought to play down settler violence, accusing the media of exaggerating the problem.
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Residents of Khirbet Al-Tawil, however, say they have no intention of leaving.
“They just want to empty this place,” one farmer told RT, referring to the settlers.
With some wells already dangerously low, residents fear that exhausting the remaining water supplies could ultimately make staying on their land impossible.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
A lot of the water was contaminated by sewage to cause ill health and even death to Palestinians – the west is complicit in a country that doesn’t enact Human Rights Laws- is racially biassed- ignores worldwide Nuclear Proliferation Laws -has no thought to the welfare of Palestinians-arms west-bank settlers who kill/beat up Palestinians and are guilty of killing 76,000 Palestinian civilians . There is no other word in the English language for those actions other than-Genocide ! You protest and in the west you are jailed no matter how old or infirm you are making a mockery of saying… Read more »
Israeli armed forces are the new Nazis. Israeli are the chosen people by the devil. Israel is the cancer of humanity, horrible people.
Coincidentally, they’re doing the same thing in Argentina Patagonia region.